Bedford/St. Martin's
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Parent company | Macmillan Publishers |
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Status | Active |
Founded | 1981 |
Founder | Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg |
Country of origin | U.S. |
Headquarters location | Boston and New York City |
Publication types | Textbooks |
Fiction genres | humanities |
Official website | www |
Bedford/St. Martin's is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Macmillan Publishers, which is in turn owned by the Stuttgart-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its offices are in Boston and New York City.
History
[edit]The company was founded in 1981 by Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg as Bedford Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.
Among others works, Bedford/St. Martin's has published The Bedford Handbook and A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker, Patterns for College Writing, The Bedford Reader, The American Promise, Ways of the World and Writer's Help.
In 2013, Bedford/St. Martin's made a deal with Coursera to offer instructional materials.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Anderson, Nick (8 May 2013). "Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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